Undergarment



B. W. THAYEE'.

UNDERGARMENT.

1 APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25.4920.

Patentedl Oct. 11, 1921...

f/n/z/zzar DUETM/ 717A ye m5 ATTORNEY6' back to expose the sheet or section that is i nunr'wfirnefirnnfor emanat n ,Ma m th eas es. l

v Application filed June 25, ToaZZ whom it mag/concern:

Be itknown that I, BURT W. THAYER, a

citizen of the United States resident of Minneapolis, in the county of f-Iennepm and :State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Under- I worn by adults.

.15 undergarment provided with the usual opening from the neck opening down the front,

garments, of which the following is a speci This invention relatesto improvements in undergarments which may be 1n the form of a shirt or a union suit. ,The garment 1s particularly designed for the use of 01111- dren, but may be made of proper sue to be i The invention consists generally in an r with a sheet orsection, preferably of the same material as the body of. the garment, arrangedso that a portion preferably about manently secured thereto while the other part projects beyond. the Vert cal central opening and isadapted to lie beneath the other side ofthe front of the garment and to have its edge secured, preferably by-buttons, to the wall of the garmentnear the side thereof. V A

In the accompanying drawing "forming part of the specification,

, Figure 1 is a front view of a portlonof a union suit, having myimprovement applied thereto, the front of the garment being unbuttoned and one side thereof being turned arranged inside of the garment front. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the overi lapping edges of the front of the garment buttoned together, the position of the inside sheet being indicated by dotted llnes,

Fig. 3 isa transverse section on line 3--3 of Fig. 2.

his.

i i form of a union suit, although ifpreferred the inventionmay be appliedto a separate In the drawings 1 represents the body of thegarment, which is here shown as in the shirt. .This garment opens down the front,

i being provided with the overlapping edges 2 and 3, one edge-the underlapp1ng-being provided with a series of buttons 4:, and the overlapping edge being provlded with a corresponding series of buttonholes 5. I proit vide a sheet or section 6,.which is usually n Specification of Letters Patent.

width beyond the edge 2 of the button-holes 10 one-half'thereof extends under one side of h the garmentnear the the front part of the garment and is per cated in the drawing.

Patented oet. ii, test. 1920. Serial No. 391,669. formedof the same material as the body of the garment, and is shape and adapted to preferably of oblong" entirely cover the inner portion of the front of the garment, as it indicated in Figs. land 2 of the drawings.

One edge of this sheet indicated at 7 is per= .manently secured, preferably by sewing,

within the underlapping'side or portion of the front of the garment, as shown clearly in Flg. 8.0f the drawings. There is also preferably a row of stitching 8 arranged near the edge, or substantially in line with, that carries the row of. buttons 4:. The sheet 6 extends for substantially half of'its indicated in Fig. 1, so as to be adapted to underlie the other half of the front of the garment, and it is preferably'provided with buttons 9 that are adapted to button through arranged in the body of side thereof,- as indi- It will thus be seen that the part, of the sheet 6 that isunder one-half ofthe'front of the garment is permanently secured to the inside of this part of the garment, while the. other half of the sheet projects therefrom the garment, as V and is adapted to underlie the other half of I the front of the garment and to be held in place by the buttons 9, on its free edge adapted to engage the button-holes 10. After the garmenthas been put on by the wearer this across-the body and the buttons 9 are inthe usual way. h The garment thus produced is very muchportion. of the sheet is spread partof the sheet and serted throughthe button-holes 10 near the l warmer than an ordinary garment that buttons down the front, as the overlapping edges of the garment are covered by this inside sheet, and the entire front of the garment is made of double thickness. With slight expense a very much warmer garment .is' produced and one that has the appearance of an ordinary garment'that is arranged to be buttoned down the front.

I claim as myinvention:

A garment of the class described having 5 ,a central vertlcal opening with overlapping edges, and means for securing said edges together, of an underlying sheet having one edge to the inside wall of the garment near portion thereof permanently secured inside the side thereof, said single underlying sheet of the front portion of the garment at one imparting a double thickness to each of the 10 side of its Vertical opening, and the remaintwo separable front portions of the garment.

5 ing portion of the sheet projecting beyond In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set the Vertical opening line of the garment, and my hand this 22nd day of June, 1920. provided with means for securing its faoe BURT W. THAYER. 

